Abstract The morbidity of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) remains high, particularly because of secondary cerebral lesions that significantly aggravate the primary lesions.The main type of Gate Hardware secondary lesions is delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), in which platelets (PLT) appear to play a key role.Mean platelet volume (MPV) is an
Temporal variability of fundamental frequency contours
Intonation Foot Print Kit is one of the means of performing a speech style.Thus, observing pitch variation in an utterance may be a clue to identifying speech style.We design a cumulative slope (CS) index based upon the amount of pitch variation in a measured F0 contour and the duration of that contour.The more pitch changes there are and the great
A brief note from Pakistan: reflections from a British psychiatrist
A British general adult psychiatrist born and trained in the UK, who also considers himself Pakistani, had the opportunity to Confectionery spend 2 weeks running a psychiatric clinic in a remote hospital in the Punjab province of Pakistan.In this article he offers some reflections on the unexpected culture shock he felt, on the hospital system, the